ALLA KUCHMA
Resident of CUTOUT COLLAGE ART PROJECT: October 2024 - Today
Alla Kuchma was born on June 15, 1990, in Kryvyi Rih, and her love for art manifested from a very early age. She was always interested in all available forms of creativity, including embroidery, beadwork, pencil and paint drawing. In primary school, Alla convinced her mother to enroll her in art school, creating an entire folder of drawings to prove her seriousness.
At art school, she gained basic knowledge of composition and color, and after graduating, continued studying art independently, though life obligations prevented her from fully dedicating herself to it. Throughout her life, Alla experimented with various art techniques, such as oil painting, acrylics, watercolor, graphics, tattooing, and more.
Combining her passion for math and art, Alla built her life around these two interests. Since 2013, she has been working in the IT field as a web developer, spending most of her free time studying, researching, and creating art.
In 2017, Alla moved to Kyiv, but in 2022 became a refugee, choosing Berlin as her new home, as the city had always felt like a second home to her. In Berlin, she underwent not only personal changes but also a transformation in her artistic vision, adopting the pseudonym AK Electra.
She became interested in exploring various forms of paper art, focusing on collages, where visual language became an alternative to words for processing experiences and complex emotions. Alla also creates beaded portrait embroidery, cyanotypes, and interactive installations, working on personal projects and as a resident of the CUTOUT COLLAGE ART PROJECT.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
- SOVA “Senses Alteration” group exhibition, GlogauAir gallery, Berlin, Germany
ARTWORKS
My collage work uses visual art as an alternative to words, exploring and processing themes of complex or tangled emotions that are often so difficult to describe.
I approach these themes not to evoke the emotions themselves, but to give them form, make them visible, and validate them.
It's also important for me to explore eroticism in collages, which, like art itself, is a language without words. I aim to show that what may be seen as a very intimate or, for some, taboo subject is actually aesthetic and poetic, whether it's bare skin or latex.
In collage, I found everything I was seeking separately in other media. Alongside this, I found myself in beaded portrait embroidery, creating cyanotypes, and interactive installations. These four media together form the truest language of communication between my inner self and the world around me, and I dedicate all my free time to developing this dialogue, as I have much to express.